Half of global population is on-line, says UN

The United Nations has said that some 3.9 billion people are now using the Internet, meaning that for the first time more than half of the global population is on-line. 

The UN agency for information and communication technologies, ITU, said that by the end of this year a full 51.2 per cent of people around the world will be using the Internet.

ITU Chief



Houlin Zhou in a statement called for more support to technology and business innovation so that the digital revolution leaves no one off-line. 

The report also showed that while fixed-line telephone subions continue to dwindle worldwide, the number of mobile-cellular telephone subions is now greater than the global population.